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Originally posted by shauny
Just a quick "what do you think" question.
Science wa oppresed for centuries, if it hadnt been, where, as a species, do you think we would be right now?
Les war? More like a Star Trek kinda way of life (Not a fan, the wife is thought)
Always wondered what we would be like had Science been able to really go for it all these centuries ago.
Cheers for any thoughts.
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”—Gen. 1:1.
“Virtually all astrophysicists today conclude, that “the universe began with a big bang that propelled matter outward in all directions.” – reported U.S.News & World Report in 1997
“He is . . . hanging the earth upon nothing.”—Job 26:7.
“There is One who is dwelling above the circle of the earth,
“. . .All the days that the plague is in him he will be unclean. He is unclean. He should dwell isolated. Outside the camp is his dwelling place.” (Leviticus 13:46)
Originally posted by shauny
Just a quick "what do you think" question.
Science wa oppresed for centuries, if it hadnt been, where, as a species, do you think we would be right now?
Les war? More like a Star Trek kinda way of life (Not a fan, the wife is thought)
Always wondered what we would be like had Science been able to really go for it all these centuries ago.
Cheers for any thoughts.
Originally posted by shauny
Just a quick "what do you think" question.
Science wa oppresed for centuries, if it hadnt been, where, as a species, do you think we would be right now?
Les war? More like a Star Trek kinda way of life (Not a fan, the wife is thought)
Always wondered what we would be like had Science been able to really go for it all these centuries ago.
Cheers for any thoughts.
Originally posted by Atzil321
This sums it up nicely i think, we would be further along than we can imagine.
en.wikipedia.org...
The caricature of the period is also reflected in a number of more specific notions. For instance, a claim that was first propagated in the 19th century[46][47] and is still very common in popular culture is the supposition that all people in the Middle Ages believed that the Earth was flat. This claim is mistaken.[47][48] In fact, lecturers in the medieval universities commonly advanced evidence in favor of the idea that the Earth was a sphere.[49] Lindberg and Numbers write: "There was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge [Earth's] sphericity and even know its approximate circumference".[50]
Other misconceptions such as: "the Church prohibited autopsies and dissections during the Middle Ages", "the rise of Christianity killed off ancient science", and "the medieval Christian church suppressed the growth of natural philosophy", are all cited by Ronald Numbers as examples of widely popular myths that still pass as historical truth, although they are not supported by current historical research.[51] They help maintain the idea of a "Dark Age" spanning through the medieval period.
Originally posted by CaptainNemo
Originally posted by Atzil321
This sums it up nicely i think, we would be further along than we can imagine.
That's a very misleading graph, for a number of reasons.